Equal Day and Equal Night, Ostara’s circle brings the Light, Eostre’s celestial satellite singing, of Spring’s beginning and new life bringing.

Farewell to the Winter whose dark days were drawing, As Stars blinked in wonder and the cold winds were falling, To your secrets of Silence and of Snow gently calling, Farewell to your slower-time of fireside dreams and sleep Yawing.

We drank the cup of your deepness, as Earth in your Shadow.. We tended goat sheep and cattle, kept flame as fields fallow.

Now, calls the Guardian of all growing things, tender and tall, Now the veil rises, opening the new magic to all. And as your sacred Hare paints the egg under the Infinite Tree, We awaken refreshed to set your spring delight free.

Welcome Now then, to the sun bright and subtle, As your warmth shimmers lightly, unfolding seeds all a-futtle, With your Green-blood, our Red-blood, in the dance of your rhythm, As bird breeze and bee quicken your message and mission.

Welcome to the creatures of the life-tide arising, Under the blueness of blue-sky, beside the fast fox surprising. Now to give thanks, for your Life Song deep and high, We call out loud as a flower, from our hearts to the sky!

Come one and come all to this Mystery Renewed, For the Lord of the Dance soon among us imbued, And to you who make fertile the Earth and her Children, For your Geomancic ways of the Sun Moon and Whirtle,

We give thanks for your blessings, and to our bright kindred three, Our Rite here at an end, Happy Eostre to Thee !

The March equinox will occur on March 20 in 2011,
marking the beginning of Spring in the northern hemisphere and fall (Autumn) in the southern hemisphere.
The word “equinox” derives from the Latin words meaning “equal night” and refers to the time when the sun crosses the equator. At such times, day and night are everywhere of nearly equal length everywhere in the world.

Marking the end of Winter and the first day of Spring.
The Earth is becoming green and birds are beginning to sing, Trees are in bud, foals and calves are being born, and early summer crops are sprouting or ready to be planted…

Some Pagans now call this first day of Spring, this Vernal Equinox, Ostara.
It is a day for all to celebrate longer daylight hours, returning warmth and the start of planting.
Ostara is sacred to Eostre the Ancient Goddess of fertility,
(from whence we get the word estrogen)
Her two symbols were the Cosmic Egg and the Mad March Hare, latterly abducted and morphed into the Easter rabbit.
The myth of the Mad, Moon Gazing Hare reflects ancient beliefs that seeing a moon gazing hare would bring growth, re-birth, abundance, new-beginnings and good fortune.
The Hare however, as the symbol of Eostre, also represents fertility and fecundity.
In other words, the hare is the symbol of the rebirth of life under the new Spring. The Egg is also the most basic symbol of rebirth, renewal, and new growth.